Abstract

Extracted from text ... Language in South Africa
Mesthrie, R. ed. 2002. Language in South Africa.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 485pp.
Southern Africa provides a fascinating laboratory in which the complex
dynamics of multilingual societies can be studied. Although this region offers
almost unlimited scope for sociolinguists and scholars of related disciplines,
relatively few books have been published in these fields. In this regard Language
in South Africa (LSA) and its predecessor, Language and social history: studies
in South African sociolinguistics (LSH), fill a major gap.
The publishers describe LSA as `a comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to
languages and society in South Africa'. ..